" He'd gone and ruined everybody's fun that day by getting in a big fight with my mother about the gigantic white twenty-five-gallon Texas cowboy hat that she was wearing." pg 39. This is a hyperbole because it is exaggerating. It is a good hyperbole because if you flipped the hat upside down it can't really hold twenty-five gallons. The author is trying to make you understand how big the hat is.
" Their mouths came open and their heads start bouncing up and down like they're in a big tub of water for apples and before you know it... woop zoop sloop... they're out cold and their face thunks down smack-dab on the book." pg 54. This is both a simile and an onomatopoeia. The simile is comparing people's heads bouncing up and down to bobbing for apples in a big tub of water. The onomatopoeia is, woop zoop sloop. These are words that describe the sound of their heads smacking down on the book and falling asleep.
" He'd gone and ruined everybody's fun that day by getting in a big fight with my mother about the gigantic white twenty-five-gallon Texas cowboy hat that she was wearing." pg 39. This is a hyperbole because it is exaggerating. It is a good hyperbole because if you flipped the hat upside down it can't really hold twenty-five gallons. The author is trying to make you understand how big the hat is.
" Their mouths came open and their heads start bouncing up and down like they're in a big tub of water for apples and before you know it... woop zoop sloop... they're out cold and their face thunks down smack-dab on the book." pg 54. This is both a simile and an onomatopoeia. The simile is comparing people's heads bouncing up and down to bobbing for apples in a big tub of water. The onomatopoeia is, woop zoop sloop. These are words that describe the sound of their heads smacking down on the book and falling asleep.
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